Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2019

When I facilitate staff retreats or workshop on wellbeing in the workplace based on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , we do some reflective exercises, including taking the nonprofit burnout assessment , identifying stress triggers and reactions before creating a self-care plan and addressing cultural norms. How do you deal with deadline stress?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I also include my list of work/life habits that I want to maintain or modify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

In Finland, classroom time incorporates “brain breaks” after 50 minutes when one’s natural focus and energy begins to wane. Taking brain breaks is an important work skill as well. And, it pays off as students perform better on educational tests than their peers in other European countries.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Add specific details that bring your personas to life. Use this template to facilitate the persona creation process: This template offers space to add demographic and behavioral information about your personas and strategize your intended messaging. What other blogs do they like to read? Who do they follow on social media?

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Classy

MAY 3, 2021

Quarterly progress reports showing their life-saving gift in action. Savory’s mission to facilitate the large-scale regeneration of the world’s grasslands is fueled by the generous support of its donors, and recurring giving has become a crucial source of revenue in their goal to influence the management of 1 billion hectares by 2025.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

” It isn’t about making the time or thinking about physical activity or movement as a separate exercise time, but something that is integrated into your life – including work time. I’ve also replaced networking requests for “coffee” for “walking meetings.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals. Rituals are also used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 18, 2018

I graduated from high school in 2016 and had little notion of what I wanted to do with my life until I joined Public Allies. Because of this program, I have been given the opportunity and guidance to achieve my life mission to create meaningful, positive and lasting change. “To My AmeriCorps service has been invaluable.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 21, 2018

I graduated from high school in 2016 and had little notion of what I wanted to do with my life until I joined Public Allies. Because of this program, I have been given the opportunity and guidance to achieve my life mission to create meaningful, positive and lasting change. “To My AmeriCorps service has been invaluable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. This can be handled by telling participants the facilitator will be checking in the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Howard Gardner has dedicated his life work to this Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Yet, many conference panels are designed to accommodate only one or two styles of learning and go shallow instead of going deep. I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? Rob Cottingham. Photo by Devon Smith.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

In my case, I'll be talking about some of my hard-learned lessons of not having a well-defined personal brand in social media when I first started out way back in 2002 and how that has carried over to the work side of my life. Steve Spiker and Steve Backman are facilitating this session with me. I love it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start! The neuroscientists at the Gazzaley Lab at University of California, San Francisco, have shown that games can improve our cognitive function. Around Gender.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Last June, I facilitated a leadership workshop at the Americans for the Arts Conference where I tested some of the assessments and checklist tools in our book. Then we had the whole staff brain storm together. These were organized into different categories: Organizational Wide, Self-Care Group, Individual.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

In my case, I'll be talking about some of my hard-learned lessons of not having a well-defined personal brand in social media when I first started out way back in 2002 and how that has carried over to the work side of my life. Steve Spiker and Steve Backman are facilitating this session with me. 11NTCbrand). I love it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Creative Ladies Planning the Year Ahead on Jamie Ridler Studios Wish on Create Your Own Beautiful Holiday Poetry Book by Tara Sophia Mohr I'm 42 and Full of Gratitude and Appreciation on SurfPrayLove Unfun Decisions: Scraping Bottom by Gwen Bell Forget Your Perfect Offering by Gwen Bell Creating With Kids :: Still Shots from Goddess Guide Book Something (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Is everyone suffering from “foggy brain” caused by too much sitting down meetings? Wondering how to organize and facilitate a meeting where everyone is on their feet instead of their devices? Walking meetings can help shakes things up. To get started, make a list of all the meetings you typically attend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , Stephen Covey refers to the “scarcity mentality” as a zero-sum paradigm of life. Covey notes that these views of life have been deeply scripted within us, suggesting this mindset goes beyond the nonprofit workplace. Scarcity captures the mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

” It isn’t about making the time or thinking about physical activity or movement as a separate exercise time, but something that is integrated into your life — including work time. The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Research has found that after hours emails contributes to the blurring of work/life boundaries. Get to know your Ultradian Rhythms , the natural rhythms of your body and brain that repeat throughout the day. Many times we need to use technology to facilitate the meeting, whether it is bring a remote worker or view a presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

They want their brains to matter. They know they’re smart, they know their skills are in demand and they don’t want to settle for less than a life in which skills and values are aligned. Campus Party organizer Futura Networks also recognizes that a big driver for young techies is…social relevance. billion to date.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

The question was really how do you say yes to a connected yes and an inner life as well? He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. She reaching for her blackberry facilitated "hyperthinking" with others. She also plays another game with the battery life of her phone at the end of the day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2005

I have to point over the Nancy White's comic about online life that she created in gnomz.com. But importantly, check out her work adding visuals to online facilitation and her gallery of imaginary friends. I think what I most admire about Nancy is her ability to play with ideas and be right-brained!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2006

I've been attending the weekly Friday TechSoup meetings in Second Life and you run into the most fascinating people. He wanted to work for an organization that facilitates bottom-up approaches to sustainable development and after seeing an ad in the Idealist he jumped at the opportunity to GlobalGiving's team. (I

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The MatrixFiles

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Last Friday, for the first part of the Matrix Group holiday celebration, I hired a facilitator to run a group discussion about the year we’ve just had. Brian Tarallo from Lizard Brain led us through a two-hour reflection and asked us questions like: What has been your overarching mood in 2021? I’m thinking a lot about the future.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

In reality, we all spend most of our time trying to avoid failure, because the unpleasantness can have significant repercussions we may not want to trade for a shiny life lesson. Four good things about this kind of failure: It confirmed that there was a difference in visitor response to different facilitated activities.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Some Internet People say some that sparks something in your brain. Ellice Engdahl is Digital Collections & Content Manager at The Henry Ford, where she manages ongoing collections digitization work and facilitates storytelling on the web. Some Internet People strike the flint every time. Let’s do it.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2018

A general rule in my life, for example, is that I awaken each morning with a song in my head. When I do not awaken to a song running through my head, I attribute that to my brain watching over me by not allowing The Joker to slip into my subconscious. Rule #2 is to never chase that which is not foreseeable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Her post was based off of the Brains of Fire Manifesto, “ 10 Lessons Learned in Igniting Word of Mouth Movements.” Our job as organizational communicators lies in trying to facilitate a larger conversation by providing the means for people to share, perhaps initiate conversations, and highlight the great work and thoughts of others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. SoTropia Life in 2040 Let’s peer into the near future. We’ll pick the brains of people who live this challenge daily in the nonprofit sector.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

For ten years, he was the director of communications for the Gift of Life organ donation nonprofit, where he oversaw projects ranging from advocating for changes in laws, to a rebranding of the organization. . Constituent Relationship Management tools), and you have the makings of a good content strategy. Getting to Work.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

For ten years, he was the director of communications for the Gift of Life organ donation nonprofit, where he oversaw projects ranging from advocating for changes in laws, to a rebranding of the organization. . Constituent Relationship Management tools), and you have the makings of a good content strategy. Get to Work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Note from Beth: As a trainer and someone who teachers other trainers, I’ve been obsessed with improving my facilitation skills and written a lot about it on this blog. I’m always up for a conversation with other facilitators about shop talk and getting tips for improving my practice. Analytical? Compassionate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. They want to improve their quality of life and confidence and lead an independent life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. We need to establish a presence for our organization in Second Life,??? Outside of blogs, I think that anything that facilitates word of mouth can be very effective.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Will you give now to deliver life-saving aid to puppies in need? Research has found that emotion-based storytelling in communications can trigger positive reactions through the release of brain chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. Consider donating to support our mission. Stray dogs in your community need help right now.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

This is because our brains process them almost instantly. These anecdotes serve as powerful social proof, demonstrating to potential participants and donors the real-life impact and enjoyment brought on by the event. Facilitate the sharing of your event by offering customizable eCards that attendees can send to their networks.

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